Fastener



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4 FASTENER Filed Jan. 21, 1929 INVENTOR.

Patented July 1, 1930 MILTON D. EALY, F LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA FASTENEB.

Application filed January 21, 1928. Serial No. 333,790.

My invention relates to fasteners, and has for a purpose the provision of an extremely simple and inexpensive fastener which is particularly adapted, although not necessarily, for fastening the ends of a catamenial bandage to the supporting belt in substitution of the more expensive and complicated fasteners heretofore employed and found to be particularly unsatisfactory because they produce enlargements clearly discernible over thin garments.

It is also a purpose of my inventionto provide a fastener which is characterized by its extreme thinness and flatness, and by at least two slots into which any flexible element may be extended and trainedsuccessively through the slots, the slots being'funotionally related to secure the flexible element against withdrawal from the slots transversely by reason of an angular arrangement of the slots.

1 will describe only two forms of fastener V embodying my invention, and will then point out the novel features thereofin claims.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figural is a view showing one form of fastener embodying my invention in applied position to a catarnenial bandage and sup porting belt; I

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail perspective view of the fastener shown in Fig.1; and

Fig. 3 is a vertical: sectional view, taken I a on the line 3-3 ofFig. 1.

Fig. l is a view showing in side elevation another form of fastener embodyingmy invention. N

Fig. 5 is a sectional yiew taken on the line 55 of Fig. 4 andshowing one manner of using the fastener. V

In carrying out my invention, I provide a fastener preferably constructed from a piece of rigid material,-such as metal, to form an extremely thin .andflat'body that is, in the present instance, of rectangular formpalthough it will be understood 'that'itsLprecise form does not enter into the proper functioning of the body as a fastener. As the invention is illustrated, the body 15 is'formed along and adjacent its upper edge with an elongated opening 16 for the purpose of receiving a strap or tab 17 depending from a band or when worn. The tab 177. is looped through the opening 16 as best shown in Fig. 3,'and then stitched in loopv form so as to permanently .connect the tab to the fastener body and yet body and'for such distances that the inner ends of the slots are in overlapped relation to each other at apoint directly beneath the opening 16. Although both slots extend downwardly,they are inclined in opposite directions, their outer or entrance ends having relatively wide mouths to permit the easy entranceof any flexible article into the slots incident to attaching the article to thefastener. However, the slots decrease in width inwardly from the mouths in order that the flexible article may be properly gripped by the walls of the slots to effectively securethe article against removal transversely from the slots. Thus, the slots define wedge-shaped openings, although it is to be understood that the wedge form is not essential to se-, cure a flexible article to the fastener body in View of the relation of the slots to each other and the manner in which the flexible article istrained through the slots. 1

attachedto the tab as illustrated, a flexible article such asthe oatamenial bandage 21 may besecured to the tab by extending the free end of the bandage first through the upper slot. 19,; then. over the front of the fastener body,and finally inwardly through the lower slot from the bandage depends from the rear side of the fastener. With the bandage so applied; any pull exerted lengthwise of "thebandage or tab will tendto 1' am or wedge .belt 18 which is'adapted'to encircle the waist '1 In practice, with the fastener permanently loo tener as applied to a supporting belt tab and catamenial bandage, it may be employed in any capacity where a looped element is adapted to be temporarily attached'to a flexible element, I having elected this particular application of my invention to illustrate the advantage provided by reason of its extreme thinness and flatness, as it will be appreedges thereof so that their inner end portions overlap, said slots being inclined in opposite directions so that the inner end portions extend along intersecting lines, and an elongated opening atone side of the slots extending transversely of the plate.

Signed at Los Angeles in the county of Los Angeles and State of California this 4th day of January, A. D. 1929.

, MILTON D. EALY.

ciated that in such use it lies flat against the body and forms no protuberance that could be dlscernlble when covered by outer garments. In Figs. a and 5 I have shown another form of fastener embodying my invention and which comprises a single' piece of metal or other rigid material to form a relatively thin and ffat body 25. Centrally the body is formed with two openings 26 that extend transversely of the body and in spaced parallelism to each other. At opposite sides of the slots, the body is formed'with two pairs of slots, the slots-of each pair being designated at 19* and 20 and identical in form and arrangement to the slots 19 and 20 of the fastener shown in Fig. 2.

The openings 26 provide a means through which a strap 2'? or other flexible member may be extended and stitched to form a loop which permanently secures the strap to the fastener leaving the end portions of the fastener free to permit the extension of the ends of a cloth or other flexible element or the opposed ends of two separate pieces of cloth into the slots 19 and 20 in the same manner as'described in connection with the first form of fastener and the bandage 21 Thus the cloth endsare detachably secured to the strap 27 through the medium of the fastener.

Although I have herein shown and described only two forms of fasteners embodying my invention, it is to be understoodthat various changes and modifications may be made herein without departing from the spirit of the invention and the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

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1. A fastener comprising a plate having slots thereinarranged in pairs with the slots of each pair extending inwardly from opposite edges of the plate and at different points, said plate having openings therein between the pairs of slots.

2. A fastener comprising a plate having two slots extending inwardly from opposite 

